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Deirdre Coyle
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Electric Literature

·Apr 17, 2017

Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me

Late to the Party: Reading ‘Brief Interviews with Hideous Men’ for the first time — Editor’s Note: Late to the Party is a new Electric Literature series where we ask writers to read an author that, for some reason, they’ve never read. You can read previous entries here. Pre-Reading Impressions For a while, I was seeing a guy who really liked David Foster Wallace. He once forced…

David Foster Wallace

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Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me
Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me
David Foster Wallace

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Human Parts

·Mar 4, 2015

Nice Girls Can Be Criminals

When you call me a “nice girl,” what you don’t understand is that I’m a criminal. I haven’t been arrested or held accountable, but when I say “I’m a nice girl” out loud, I feel the lie build up against my lips. It burns my tongue. When I tell you…

Women

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Nice Girls Can Be Criminals
Nice Girls Can Be Criminals
Women

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Human Parts

·Jun 4, 2014

Cities That Are Not New York

Punk Rock, Cultural Tourism, and Finding You Everywhere — In Richmond, I slipped around Cary Street, trying to match, living in the basement of Plan 9 Records like I belonged, pinching used record sleeves too tightly, fingers greased from Mary Angela’s pizza, scouring drawers of buttons in Bygones Vintage, clawing at the person I thought I could be, pretending…

Cities

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Cities That Are Not New York
Cities That Are Not New York
Cities

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Mar 7, 2014

How to “Dress” Like a “Writer”

The Lessons of History, Now Tumbleable — Johnny Depp as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In contemplating this year’s AWP conference (The Animus of Writing Peeps or something), I spent a few maudlin hours staring at my closet and fondling various black sweaters. I needed some clothes that would imply that I had the ability to read…

Writers

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How to “Dress” Like a “Writer”
How to “Dress” Like a “Writer”
Writers

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Human Parts

·Sep 17, 2013

Gaming as Relationship Status

Button-mashing, breaking up, and other dangerous forays — When I started hanging out in other people’s basements instead of my own, I stopped playing video games. Between twelve and twenty-two, I didn’t game, and I don’t know what happened to my 90s PlayStation or my Dark Forces CD-ROM. But when my ex and I moved in together, I…

Heart

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Gaming as Relationship Status
Gaming as Relationship Status
Heart

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Human Parts

·Jul 31, 2013

Billy Idol, Bodies, and an Upswell of Angst

When I was fifteen, I went to see Billy Idol. First wave punk has been my go-to musical place since I was old enough to have a go-to musical place. Blame the fact that I pulled John Lydon’s autobiography Rotten from my dad’s bookshelf in the seventh grade, and then…

Heart

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Billy Idol, Bodies, and an Upswell of Angst
Billy Idol, Bodies, and an Upswell of Angst
Heart

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Human Parts

·Jul 10, 2013

Virginia at Night

The way Virginia feels at night, that’s how I want to feel all the time. The trees move in a certain way, they do not look like other trees. They have secrets. They uncover these at night so that if you tip your eyes backward and see the stars frying…

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Virginia at Night
Virginia at Night

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Deirdre Coyle

Deirdre Coyle

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The New York Times called me “another writer.” Columnist at Unwinnable. Haute goth. http://deirdrecoyle.com

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